Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 8: Data QA/QC, Formatting, Archiving, Version 1.0: Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears, Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Network
Robison HL, Rattenbury KL, Boyd ES. 2018. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 8: Data QA/QC, Formatting, Archiving, Version 1.0: Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears, Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Network. National Park Service Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network
SOP 8 covers field data processing, data quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) and instructions for preparation of the data for analysis. Please cite this Standard Operating Procedure as: Robison, H. L., K. L. Rattenbury, J. H. Schmidt, and E. S. Boyd. 2017. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 8: Data QA/QC, Formatting and Analysis, Version 1.0. Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears in Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Networks. National Park Service, Fairbanks, Alaska. Available online at https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2210687. The main Narrative for the Protocol for Monitoring Brown Bears in Arctic (ARCN) Inventory and Monitoring Networks is available from the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Arctic Network website (http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/arcn/) and the Natural Resource Publications Management website (http://www.nature.nps.gov/publications/nrpm/
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Robison, Hillary; Rattenbury, Kumi; Boyd, Eric
- Date of Issue
- 2018-09-27
- Publisher
- National Park Service Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network
- Units
- ARCN , BELA , CAKR , GAAR , KOVA , NOAT
- Keywords
- abundance, alaska, brown bear, distribution, grizzly, monitoring, national park service, nps, standard operating procedure, survey, ursus arctos
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals